People with heightened activity in the amygdala, an area of the brain linked to stress, may be at greater risk of heart disease and stroke, scientists said last week in research that could lead to…
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A national Congress on Youth Affairs Management will be held January 21 by the Ministry of Sports and Youths Affairs at Tehran’s Olympics Hotel in the presence of First Vice President Es’haq…
The Iran-Austria joint conference was held Sunday at Tehran’s Kharazmi University in the presence of Iranian deputy ministers for education and an academic delegation from Vienna.
Preservatives are not permitted to be used in canned food products, according to regulations of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Nastaran Mohammadi, head of Monitoring and Evaluation of…
The universities of medical sciences in Tabriz (East Azarbaijan) and Urmia (West Azarbaijan) have been tasked to conduct a comprehensive long-term study of the effects on health of the people…
High costs of traveling have made tourism a luxury, according to the director of the Association of Air Transport and Tourism Agencies of Iran.
Speaking to the travel news website Safar,…
The US Transportation Security Administration discovered nearly 3,400 firearms in carry-on bags last year at US airports, an average of nine per day across 238 airports. There was a 28% increase…
Tabasi House, a historical building in Kashan, Isfahan Province, was inscribed on the National Heritage List on Jan. 14, according to the head of the provincial office of Iran's Cultural Heritage…
Chinese hotel bookings to Thailand for the Lunar New Year have tumbled, as a crackdown on cheap package tours hits visitor numbers from its biggest source of holidaymakers.
Tourism is…
The tourism authority in Khuzestan Province will organize bird-watching tours around wetlands as well as Khor-e Musa (Persian for Musa Bay) and the banks of Arvandroud river to promote eco and…
The number of calls made to Tehran emergency services over the past week increased by 12% as high levels of pollution enveloped the sprawling capital for over a week.
“Most of those who…
Iranian traffic police, for the fourth consecutive year, has declared Fars Province as recording the highest rate of road crashes as well as road fatalities in the country.
The regular…
Under a vaccination program that began yesterday (January 14), 492,000 children under five years of age will be vaccinated against polio in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan Province. “The…
Emergency disaster preparation of all sections of the society plays an important role in reducing casualties, said Masoud Habibi, head of the Youth Organization of the Iranian Red Crescent Society…
Only 18.5% of students in Tehran are enrolled in private schools, and the rest study in state-run institutions, said Alireza Kamrei, director general of the Tehran Education Department at the…
Lawmakers on Thursday approved the long-awaited Forest Protection Bill, which places a 10-year ban on exploiting the rapidly diminishing northern forests.
Each year, 100 babies are born with HIV in the country. “If HIV-infected women receive specific treatments during pregnancy, the risk of mother-to-child transmission of the virus will be reduced…
Iranian researchers and scientists residing overseas cooperate in almost 30% of projects at Iranian universities, said Hossein Salaramoli, deputy science minister for international affairs. “Since…
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases (33%), stroke (9.4%) and cancers (8%) have been the top major killers in the country during the past decade.
Although…
Iranian researchers have created a kit for consumers to detect adulteration in honey. “A major concern for consumers is quality assurance of honey,” said Abbas Ebrahimi, the project manager, Mehr…
Sedentary types face the risk of developing dementia like those who are genetically predisposed to it, if they don’t exercise. Researchers from McMaster University, Canada, said carriers of a…
If a proposal introduced by the Russian Health Ministry is adopted, Moscow will ban the sale of cigarettes to people born in 2015 and after.
Tobacco kills about six million people globally…
A program for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis conceived by the Health Ministry will be piloted in the upcoming fiscal year that starts in March.
The Karaj-Chalus Road will be closed from 9 pm to 5 am from Saturdays till Tuesdays till the end of the current year on March 20, said Colonel Reza Akbari, traffic police chief of Alborz Province…
With an aim to improve the quality of psychiatric clinical care in the country, 1,000 new beds for psychiatric wards will be inaugurated today (January 14) across the country. The…
